Suppose You Have Created a New Method of Diagnosing Anxiety

question 41

Multiple Choice

Suppose you have created a new method of diagnosing anxiety disorders. How could you demonstrate that your method is construct valid?

• A) teach several licensed clinicians to use and evaluate your method.
• B) use your method to diagnose the same group of participants repeatedly over the course of several years, and see if you consistently arrive at the same diagnosis for a given individual
• C) have several specialists read about your new technique and invite their opinions
• D) use your method to diagnose a group of participants, then see if your diagnoses match with diagnoses taken from other, established methods

Understand the comparison between the management of fisheries and forestry in terms of sustainability and enforcement of property rights.

Grasp the principles behind preventing overexploitation of natural resources, including the tragedy of the commons.

Relate economic principles to environmental outcomes, including the influence of GDP per capita on environmental quality.

Understand government policies regarding population growth and their economic implications.

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Definitions:

Two-way ANOVA

A technique used in statistics to assess the influence of two discrete independent variables on a continuous dependent variable.

Hypotheses

Propositions made as a basis for reasoning, without any assumption of their truth.

Two-way ANOVA

A statistical analysis tool used to explore the relationship between two categorical independent variables and a continuous dependent variable.

Interaction Effect

A phenomenon in statistical analysis where the effect of one variable on an outcome is different depending on the level or value of another variable.